The Civil Guard of the Almería Command is investigating a minor who shot a person walking on the sidewalk from the window of a house, located in the municipality of Albox, with an air rifle.
This investigation was initiated last July by personnel from the Albox Civil Guard Post, when through the complaint filed by the victim, it became known that a person had suffered injuries in the lumbar area after being shot with an air gun while walking down a street in the municipality of Albox.
The victim was walking along a street in the town with a group of people when, after hearing a gunshot, he felt pain in his lower back. He then put his hand to that area and noticed that he had a bleeding wound. After going to the Albox medical service for medical attention, he was sent to the La Inmaculada hospital in Huércal-Overa, where he was informed that a pellet was lodged in the wound in his lower back.
When the victim is treated by the medical services, he returns to the place to identify the exact place and the person who shot him, at which point the perpetrator, upon noticing his presence, closes the window of the house.
After a few days, the victim returns to the place where the events occurred, at which time he can record how, in this case, the perpetrator, upon seeing two other people walking through the same place, loads an air rifle and again shoots at them through the window, although this time, the pellet hits the ground.
The Civil Guard personnel in charge of the investigation, when they became aware of the facts, carried out an initial visual inspection of the site, where no pellets were observed on the ground, but the impact of several projectiles on a nearby traffic sign could be seen.
Once the Civil Guard identified the inhabitants of the house, they identified a third person who was in the place and when they noticed that this third person was shooting towards the street, they reprimanded him and expelled him from the house. Continuing with the necessary procedures, the agents in charge of the investigation identified a minor, a resident of the same municipality, as the author of the events who was summoned to the Civil Guard Post, where he handed over the compressed air shotgun.
As a result of this investigation, the Civil Guard of the Almería Command is investigating a minor as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of injury after shooting a person with an air rifle from the window of a house located in the municipality of Albox.